The paper discusses how short- and long-term residence in China shapes the transnational subjectivity of young Chinese descendants who were born or raised in Italy. Drawing on ethnographic material, it discusses how affective experiences and discursive practices intersect in mobility, creating complex dynamics of distance, belonging, and negotiation.
This study provides a reference framework on huaqiao xuexiao(华侨学校) based on ethnographic research conducted in southern Zhejiang, a region historically linked to migration to Italy. Unlike huawen xuexiao ( 华文学校), which are Chinese heritage language schools outside the People’s Republic of China, huaqiao xuexiao refers here to both public and private institutions in China attended by students with transnational migration backgrounds.
Chinese heritage schools (huawen xuexiao 华文学校) are important cultural outposts for understanding the evolution of the Chinese diaspora experience in Italy, where they are defined as a rapidly growing phenomenon that is strengthening its organisational dynamics.
ver the past decade, Chinese complementary schools in Italy have significantly expanded in the country and evolved. After the pandemic, both state-sponsored online initiatives from the PRC and digital programs developed by the schools themselves supported the teaching activities.
[IT] II Sud-Est asiatico rappresenta un caso di studio peculiare per l’analisi delle regioni di confine. Le spinte dei processi di globalizzazione, l’integrazione economica e istituzionale, nonché i fenomeni migratori interregionali non hanno scalfito la rigidità dei confini interstatali. Inoltre, l’assenza di un corrispettivo ASEAN agli accordi di Schengen genera una contraddizione fondamentale: al rigido controllo statale delle frontiere si contrappone un’inevitabile porosità, alimentata da una profonda interdipendenza regionale.
